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| Out to sea dinghy cruise | 2012-09-01 | Safety boat duty on an out to sea cruise. Big tides and light winds.
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Out to sea
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| Out to sea dinghy cruise | 2014-05-31 | An SYC dinghy cruise out to sea that actually made it out to sea! It looked as though there would be no wind at all for quite a while but gentle F2 / F3 filled in for most of the time.
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Out to sea
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| Sail on Nigel's Dart | 2014-07-14 | Beach cafe and just a bit beyond on Nigel's Dart 18. A day of lulls and gusts. A max speed of 14.6 knots is just a bit faster than I'm used to with my Wayfarer
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Out to sea
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| Darting about in light winds | 2014-07-21 | Down river and out to sea (a little bit) on Nigel's Dart. Light, and sometimes non-existent, winds suggested that venturing too far on an outgoing tide might be a problem. Interesting tacking back up the estuary against the ebb tide - couldn't do that in the Wayfarer.
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Out to sea
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| Sail on Nigel's Dart | 2014-08-18 | A decent wind (gusting maybe F5) for a storming sail on Nigel's Dart. Some excellent speeds with a top speed of over 17 knots - probably the fastest I've been under sail. Top stuff
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Out to sea
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| Dawlish Air Show Dinghy Cruise | 2014-08-23 | "Officer of the day" and safety boat duty on an out to sea dinghy cruise that coincided with the Dawlish Air Show. A few dramas a long the way but saw the Red Arrows and, later, the battle of Britain memorial flight (including two Lancasters, a Spitfire and a Hurricane).
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Out to sea
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| Liz's first safety boat drive | 2018-08-25 | Liz's first safety boat drive since getting her "Power Boat 2" training.
An out to sea dinghy cruise - out as far as the fairway buoy anyway.
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Out to sea
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| Out to sea to avoid the World Cup | 2010-06-27 | Im not a great footie fan. In fact even though the Wayfarer had somewhat of a leak a solo sail to off Dawlish seemed like the best way of avoiding the match Unsurprisingly the 7.7 knots max boat speed was just off the Warren
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Out to sea
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| Push The Boat Out at SYC | 2014-05-26 | SYC's "Push The Boat Out" day to offer people a taster of dinghy sailing. A very successful day - about 70 people got to try sailing and the winds were an ideal F2 to F3.
Liz got to try helming a Topper on dry land!
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Push the boat out
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| Camel paddling | 2023-09-14 | A paddle into Padstow Harbour and then up Petherick Creek. The creek was interesting but not quite "Helford standard".
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Sea Eagle 465
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| Pole Sands Paddling | 2022-07-27 | Down from SYC to the Pole Sands. Scooby a very happy dog (when at the Pole Sands). Saw Colin and Averil Y on Dawlish Warren with their inflatable kayak
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Sea Eagle
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| Bantham paddling | 2022-08-05 | A glorious summer's day paddle with Marija and Jeremy L.
Up the Avon from Bantham Beach to Aveton Gifford. Even Scooby Hound seemed to be quite content to be on the kayak.
The GPX track is fake (so ignore the graph) - the GPS had run out of battery power!
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Sea Eagle
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| Down river paddling | 2022-08-09 | With Nigel H in the inflatable Sea Eagle. Down against some tide and sea breeze to Bull Hill Bank. Then a lovely drift back with the tide and wind.
Thanks to Derek H for the drone pics!
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Sea Eagle
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| Seaton to Beer Head paddling | 2022-08-19 | With Marija and Jeremy L for a sea paddle from Seaton Beach out past Beer to Beer Head.
Lovely paddle.
Unfortunately, our Sea Eagle 485 inflatable kayak sprung a leak in one of the air chambers. Happily it was a slow leak and there are 3 other separate chambers before we would be completely under water!
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Sea Eagle
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| Pole Sands paddling | 2022-08-27 | Down to the Pole Sands with Jeremy and Marija L. Accompanying an SYC dinghy cruise.
After we forgot Scooby Hound's tennis ball, Marija very kindly bought him a ball on a rope. Which he promptly destroyed!
Followed up with some kayak capsize practise at SYC - capsizing both the Sea Eagle inflatable and the hard shell Triumph 13.
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Sea Eagle
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| Pole Sands Paddling | 2023-04-07 | First time out in the inflatable kayak this year.
A lovely day and a lovely paddle for lunch in the Pole Sands and then a little explore round the far side of the Pole Sands.
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Sea Eagle
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| Clyst paddling | 2023-08-26 | A paddle with Marija and Jeremy L up the Clyst as far as the Bridge Inn at Topsham. Quite neapy so not a lot of water at the mouth of the Clyst (even near the top of the tide). Wind was probably the F3 gusting F5 advertised so some good exercise!
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Sea Eagle
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| Burgh Island | 2023-09-02 | Hot and not too windy, so a lovely kayak trip around Burgh Island and then towards Bantham Beach. Scooby loved Bigbury Beach.
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Sea Eagle 465
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| Kayak Puncture! | 2023-09-09 | A second puncture (in a about 4 year's use) in our Sea Eagle 465 inflatable kayak put paid to our kayaking plans for the day.
Instead we spent a bit of time on Bar Beach on the Helford avoiding the day's strongest sun. Scooby still doesn't like swimming.
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Sea Eagle
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| Fal Estuary Paddling | 2021-07-01 | From Mylor Harbour up past King Harry ferry with lunch on Roundwood Quay and Trelissick.
Scooby much happier on the inflatable Sea Eagle kayak.
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Sea Eagle
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| Beach cafe paddle | 2024-06-23 | A paddle down from SYC to the beach cafe with Marija and Jeremy L.
Very pleasant paddle around the low tide.
Strangely, a very foggy day for some of it.
Passed Nigel H's "office" on the way back and then Nellynui once last time (before she heads off to her new home).
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Sea Eagle
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| Beach cafe paddle | 2024-11-01 | Too little wind to go sailing so Malcolm B and I headed down river in the Sea Eagle kayak
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Sea Eagle
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| Up river paddling | 2022-01-26 | Up river from SYC to Topsham Quay and back via Lympstone. Cold day but plenty warm enough under the drysuit. Absolutely no wind!
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Sea Eagle
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| Christchurch Harbour paddling | 2021-10-23 | Back on the water at Christchurch Harbour for the first time in probably 40 years.
Learnt to sail at (what was then) the Marine Training Centre (now the Hengistbury Head Outdoor Education Centre), Sailed a Wayfarer and Minisail from Mudeford. This time took the Sea Eagle kayak up from Mudeford to Tuckton Bridge on the Stour and the "The Loop" on the Avon.
Seeing the amount of water coming down the Avon, we chickened out of coming back down the right hand side of the loop. Something for another day.
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Sea Eagle
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| Up river kayaking | 2021-08-28 | A solo paddle up to Topsham Quay. Abandoned by the wife - some excuse about having to work.
"Rescued" a fishing boat that had run aground by taking their kedge anchor out to deeper water so they could pull themselves off the mud.
Had a look at the abandoned & rotting boats by Lympstone Commando.
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Sea Egale
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| Helford Paddling | 2021-07-02 | A change to normal by putting the kayak in the water on the south side of the Helford Estuary (at Helford itself).
Explored Frenchman's Creek and then up[ almost as far at Bishop's Quay (but ran out of water at neaps).
Lunch at Tremayne Quay.
Scooby really not keen on enhancing his swimming skills.
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Sea Eagle
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| Topsham Paddling | 2020-07-11 | Up to the motorway bridge in the Sea Eagle kayak.
A bit of exercise on the way back paddling against the sea breeze that came in
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Sea Eagle
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| Pole Sands Paddling | 2020-06-23 | Down to the Pole Sands around a low tide.
Back with the wind and the tide. Lovely.
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Sea Eagle
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| Paddle down to Starcross | 2020-06-16 | The plan had been to paddle up past Topsham on the rising tide but the wind was a little strong to want to paddle back against it (and the tides were small).
So it was a short paddle down to Starcross and the a float back with the wind and the tide.
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Sea Eagle
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| SYC to Cockwood harbour | 2020-06-01 | A lovely sunny summer's afternoon. Paddled down to Cockwood against the light wind and small tide and then had a "free ride" back with the tide and wind.
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Sea Eagle
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| Topsham paddling | 2020-05-25 | After dropping off Derek H's tender on his mooring we headed up towards Topsham in the new kayak. We passed Derek coming down in his Fulmar - having just launched from Topsham Quay.
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Sea Eagle
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| Dawlish Warren Kayaking | 2020-05-20 | First time down to Dawlish Warren in the new Sea Eagle kayak.
Lovely day - there was plenty of mist that came and went but that didn't detract from it.
Good test for the new kayak and I'm very pleased with it.
Less pleased that the GPS ran out of battery on the way back. Whoops.
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Sea Eagle
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| Return to the Exe | 2020-05-15 | First time back on the Exe Estuary after many, many months.
First trip out on our new inflatable kayak - a Sea Eagle 465 FastTrack.
Overall - very pleased with it.
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Sea Eagle
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| Day sail instead of Newport Trophy | 2012-06-23 | A breezy sail into a southerly F5 wind while taking advantage of a gap between the high winds. Tried out sailing with a sea anchor for the first time.
A slightly nervous wait for the tide to rise enough to get back in to the Exe while hoping that a forecast force 8 would only come in later as per the forecast.
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Sea Anchor
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